Why Evangelicals Like Rick Santorum

Growing government, taking away freedoms, catering to lobbyists, hysterical warmongering, deference to the UN; what do these things--Santorum's true trademarks--have to do with Evangelical Christianity?

Most evangelicals are suckered in by Santorum's grandstanding on social issues because they are too ignorant to have developed ideas on economic policy, so social issues are all they have to go on. (This is not a criticism of them in particular; most people know very little about economics and other policy-related topics.)

Evangelicals think about politics in a very idealized, impractical way. They'd rather vote for Santorum, a corrupt lobbyist lover, based solely on the fact that he sounds like them in ideals, regardless of whether he can actually deliver the moral utopia he seems to promise. Santorum sweeps them off their feet, and captivates them in his little conservative fantasy world...and once elected, he deceives them into going to unnecessary war, wastes their money and votes to take away their freedom.

Santorum doesn't seem to understand that when he votes to grow government, he necessarily spreads secularism since all federal buildings are prohibited from featuring religious materials. The supreme court rulings to this effect are unlikely to be overturned any time soon. True cultural change must come from the bottom up, from evangelization and not from Santorum. America became more liberal during Santorum's tenure in Washington despite what he would have people believe.

Evangelicals are also brainwashed into supporting the military industrial complex via their support for what they think is Israel. Dispensationalism is a tragically flawed heresy that perverts a Bible verse into meaning that one must support imperial wars commandeered by war hawks and war profiteers. The Iraq war that Santorum pushed for and war with Iran he's presently pushing for come to mind.

To make matters worse, the idiot media is now "Palinizing" Santorum by attacking not his corruption, lobbyist relationships, record of growing government during the Bush era, nor his confusing illogical rationales for supporting the unconstitutional Lybia war, or trigger locks, but instead they attack his alleged conservative cultural background. Thus, evangelicals are provoked into defending him just as they were into defending Palin because they believe they share his views on moral issues and view him as one of them. They confuse defending their evangelical morality with defending him, and then it's a wash; its all over for them. They follow their pied piper off the cliff and fall to tyranny...and another war possibly with a draft which Santorum's adult kids probably wont have to fight in.

Huffington was Moonstruck by Gingrich

Strangely enough, Ariana Huffington, founder of the liberal Huffington Post, was moonstruck by Speaker Gingrich in the '90s. According to Politico

Back then, when Gingrich helped the GOP recapture the House and took on the Clinton administration as speaker, Huffington was one of his strongest supporters. “She was a big champion of the Newt Revolution"

Now, she is an Obama fan and her website is critical of Gingrich. She must now think she was chasing moonbeams back then.

Concerning Newt's dreams of a moon colony, it reveals that despite his strong ties with the establishment, employment with Freddie Mac and friendship with the Tofflers. Nevertheless, Newt does have some eccentric originality to him. He has always been chasing moonbeams, or moon dreams rather, and has always considered himself to be a savior of the environment and of education, which explains his sitting on the couch in a commercial about "climate change" with Pelosi and his private visit with Obama on education in 2009. Newt's originality isn't up to our tastes...